Myasnikovich recalled how after the collapse of the USSR they wanted to surrender to the will of the market, forgetting about social problems

Mikhail Myasnikovich . Screenshot from ONT video, 10 July, MINSK . After the collapse of the USSR, Belarus talked about the transition to a market economy, an idea of ​​which was quite conditional. Mikhail Myasnikovich, who held the post of First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belarus in 1991-1994 and Prime Minister in 2010-2014, spoke about this in the documentary film "One for All" dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the presidency in Belarus, BELTA reports.

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"The center is gone (meaning Moscow , which was the capital of the Soviet Union and where all major decisions were made by the central authorities . - BELTA note). The transition from an administrative, directive economy to a market economy, the idea of ​​which was quite conditional," noted Mikhail Myasnikovich.

To a large extent, all this was done according to textbooks that praised the market approach. "To surrender to the will of the market and so on and so forth, forgetting that there are also social problems that every person lives with," he said.

At the same time, as noted in the film, Belarusian agriculture was considered exemplary for a long time. Delegations from all over the union came to learn from the experience. Agricultural lands of Belarus within the borders of the USSR occupied about 2%. And in the total production, the republic accounted for 6% of MEAT, 7% of MILK, 25% of flax fiber, 17% of potatoes.

"This is the biggest paradox of the early 90s. Belarus is already a sovereign state, which means there should be plenty of everything. But that's not the case. The shelves are empty, and the prices for what there is are astronomical. Soviet money is paper. People don't ask for circuses, they just want bread," they said in the documentary.